Pickled Daikon

This quick pickled daikon is great as an appetizer, side dish, or on banh mi sandwiches. We based it on a Cantonese restaurant recipe!

Chinese Pickled Cucumbers (酱黄瓜)

We're adding this recipe for Chinese Pickled Cucumbers to our culinary genealogy. These easy-to-make Chinese Pickled Cucumbers are delicious--and crunchy!

Spicy Cabbage Slaw

This spicy cabbage slaw, somewhere between what you'd get at a Mexican taqueria and a Haitian-style pikliz, is flavored with habanero chili and a hint of allspice. It's essentially a quick-pickle recipe that comes together in minutes, but goes a long way to adding crunch, freshness, and heat to sandwiches, tacos, or burgers.

Red Cabbage Salad w/ Crispy Spring Onions and Potato Sticks

Cold dishes are a common appetizer in China, especially in Beijing. All menus have a variety of these cold dishes just as sure as you'll find mozzarella sticks, wings, and potato skins at a Friday's. While

Spicy Cabbage Salad With Fish Sauce Dressing

Green papaya salad is a Southeast Asian classic, but that green papaya can be hard to find in many parts of the States. Inspired by the flavors of that salad, but using more readily available produce like cabbage, carrot, and green apple, this salad hits all the same notes without sending you on a shopping wild goose chase.

Chinese Cabbage Stir-Fry

This Chinese cabbage stir-fry is a tasty, satisfying recipe. Plus,this cabbage stir-fry is CHEAP and quick to prepare!

Chinese Spicy and Sour Stir-Fried Cabbage With Bacon

Hunanese food is famous for its fiery, chili-spiked dishes, and this quick and easy one with hand-torn cabbage, fresh red chilies, garlic, scallions, and bacon, is no exception. In fact, by Hunan standards, this dish is fairly tame. Slightly sour, thanks to the addition of black rice vinegar, the dish is great as part of a multi-course meal where the other dishes are even more intensely flavored and spicy.

Quick-Pickled Cucumbers With Rice Vinegar

A quick Japanese-style rice vinegar cucumber, perfect for serving with rice or stuffed into Pork Belly Buns.

Quick Cucumber Salad with Asian Dressing

This cucumber salad is actually a really common way to prepare cucumbers in Chinese cuisine. It’s got a lot of raw garlic (Beijingers are uncommonly fond of strong garlic flavors) and soy. Serve as a salad or a side dish.

Charles Phan's Pickled Carrots

Charles Phan's pickled carrots from Vietnamese Home Cooking make an appearance on his Green Papaya Salad, but they would also be welcome on many a sandwich (like a banh mi, perhaps?).